The Flying Imams and 9/11 (A Must Read!)

AINA.org ^ | 4/18/07 | Patrick Poole

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

It's a tale of two Novembers with the horror of September 11th sandwiched in between.

In November 2006, six imams on a US Airways Minneapolis to Phoenix flight begin engaging in bizarre behaviors eerily similar to those used by the 9/11 hijackers to takeover the planes used on that terrible day: shouting slogans in Arabic; leaving assigned seats to position themselves much like the 9/11 attackers; requesting seat belt extenders that they positioned on the floor, rather than used to secure themselves. Responding to the reasonable concerns of passengers and the flight crew, the imams were removed from the plane by authorities.

Seven years earlier in November 1999, two Saudi students on an America West flight from Phoenix to Columbus were detained after landing because they had made repeated attempts to enter the cockpit area of the plane during the flight.

In both cases, CAIR rose up to defend the offenders in question and engaged in their now standard grievance theater protest politics. In the most recent case, CAIR has tried to capitalize on the publicity surrounding the incident by backing the "Flying Imams" and supporting their lawsuit against the airlines and passengers for responding to their bizarre behavior. The lawsuit is being handled by a Muslim attorney associated with CAIR.

When it comes to the November 1999 incident, any mention of CAIR's involvement or defense of the Saudi students has been scrubbed from the organization's website. It's no wonder, as the 9/11 Commission Report (page 521, footnote 60) explains that the FBI now considers the incident as a "dry run" for the 9/11 hijackings. And the two men involved? As the 9/11 Commission Report explains, Hamdan al-Shalawi was in Afghanistan in November 2000 training at an Al-Qaeda camp to launch "Khobar Tower"-type attacks against the US in Saudi Arabia, and Mohammad Al-Qadhaieen was arrested in June 2003 as a material witness in the 9/11 attacks. Both men were friends of Al-Qaeda recruiter, Zakaria Mustapha Soubra, who drove them to the airport that day in Qadhaieen's car. Another friend of Shalawi is Ghassan al-Sharbi, another Al-Qaeda operative that would later be captured in Pakistan with high-level Al-Qaeda leader Abu Zubaida.

There is a connection between these two incidents, as the leader of the six "Flying Imams" this past November is none other than Omar Shahin, the former imam of the Islamic Center of Tucson, where the two Saudi students from the November 1999 incident attended. Counterterrorism expert Rita Katz told the Washington Post in September 2002 that the mosque served as "basically the first cell of Al-Qaeda in the United States; that is where it all started". (Len Sherman's Arizona Monthly November 2004 article, "Al Qaeda among Us", provides greater detail about the connections between the Saudi pair involved in the November 1999 event and the Al-Qaeda cell that operated in Tucson and Phoenix.)

Their current silence and website purge notwithstanding, immediately after the November 1999 "dry run", CAIR was not shy about publicly speaking on the incident. "It seems like they single out some individuals because of their name, the way they look or their national origin," huffed current CAIR National Vice Chairman Ahmad Al-Akhras (who was then president of the CAIR Ohio chapter) in an interview with the Egyptian daily, Al-Ahram. That same article quoted Nihad Awad, Executive Director and Co-Founder of CAIR, who explained, "the hysteria around [the crash of] EgyptAir [Flight 990] has created a negative atmosphere that leads to such incidents."

CAIR not only gave indirect support to the 9/11 "dry run" hijackers by launching an aggressive media defense and circulating their woeful tale of innocents victimized by the bigotry of non-Muslims, but as Katherine Kersten of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reminds us, in 2000 CAIR fronted a lawsuit for Shalawi and Qadhaieen against America West by hiring attorneys and calling for a boycott of the airline as a result of the incident. Again, two identical events eight years apart with CAIR playing the exact same role.

CAIR was unsuccessful in the lawsuit stemming from the November 1999 9/11 "dry run", as the judge quickly dismissed the case, but they did succeed in creating an atmosphere of intimidation that was certainly aimed at stopping airline passengers from speaking up about suspicious behavior. Did CAIR's campaign of intimidation silence any of the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77, or United Airlines Flight 93 who might have witnessed suspicious behavior of the 9/11 hijackers that day? Since all the passengers of those flights were silenced forever, we will never know.

But the horrific consequences of their previous defense of the 9/11 "dry run" has not prevented CAIR from using the exact same tactics and rhetoric in the current "Flying Imams" case. As Janet Levy recently explained in an article here at FrontPage ("The Minneapolis Six Sabotage Airline Security"), the CAIR-backed lawsuit by the six imams is being used as a propaganda device to advance CAIR's legislative agenda for the passage of a bill through Congress that would prevent authorities from acting on suspicious behavior, much like what was seen in the November 1999 and November 2006 incidents, as well as 9/11.

As their current protest politics in the "Flying Imams" case demonstrates, CAIR shows no remorse for their complicity in providing cover for the 9/11 "dry run" operatives, though the purge of their website of any mention of their participation was clearly an attempt to try to wipe the public record clean of their involvement. But in light of their past actions and with their pursuit of the current lawsuit, it seems fair to ask: will thousands more Americans need to be murdered before CAIR brings the curtain down on their grievance theater road show? Tragically, we might have the opportunity to find out.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I've never used the "Must Read" thing before. But Poole has found some very interesting links between the flying imams and 9/11.

You decide.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“Flyin’ Imams” ping.....

On or off this ping list....FReepmail to me.

[Cornpone]

CAIR, MAS and other Muslim Brotherhood affiliated organizations are notorious for ‘purging’ their sites of incriminating material. I only wish I had saved all the material I found starting in 2003 before I realized they were going to re-write their past. At one time they proudly claimed their affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. I doubt you’ll find that now.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I’m surprised that they document anything on the web. Do they think we won’t find and read it?

[Diogenesis]

Know them by their deeds.

================= EXHIBIT 1 ================

AMERICANS MURDERED ON A BRIDGE IN FALLUJA BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 2 ================

TORTURE OF AMERICANS BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS.

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 3 ================

VERY PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
Full list is pages and pages and pages and pages.

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 4 ================

Islamic Terrorists (mainly from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) attack America
murdering 3000 Americans per hour [pictures censored by the MSM]

The War for Infinite Justice SHOULD HAVE BEEN ESCALATED IN 2001

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================= EXHIBIT 4 ================

Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.

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================= EXHIBIT 5================

=========== Islamic terrorists promising to conquer America prior to murdering all Christians and Jews therein.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith,
but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America,
and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998

Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels.
So wound their bodies and incapacitate them
because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”

Qur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle,
inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them,
so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”

[aculeus]

bttt

[FormerACLUmember]

Political correctness IMHO was a contributing factor in the 9/11 slaughter.

Muslim imans and their hate-filled mosques in America are a horrific fifth column of evil and danger.

[Paladin2]

It would seem, that in general, The “religious” leaders are the ones to be most concerned about.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Thanks, as always, Dio.

This cannot be allowed to be forgotten.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“The “religious” leaders are the ones to be most concerned about.”

They give the marching orders.

[pandoraou812]

Thank you both...~P~

[hsalaw]

Great article, and well worth the “must read” thing. Thanks for posting it. I didn’t know CAIR had been playing their dirty tricks here even before 9/11.

[Riflema]

Excellent find. A little googling does, however, find CAIR’s original bleating press release about this:
http://www.cair-net.org/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=43&theType=AA
Worth saving from the memory hole no?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“Worth saving from the memory hole no?”

YES!

[subterfuge]

Please donate people. I cannot stand many more Al Gore, George Soros and Hillary photos!!!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Thanks for the bump.

And yes, let’s get this FReepathon over with.

[353FMG]

CAIR is an organization that should be under constant surveillance by the FBI and all other homeland security agencies.

[happygrl]

Did CAIR's campaign of intimidation silence any of the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77, or United Airlines Flight 93 who might have witnessed suspicious behavior of the 9/11 hijackers that day?

That's not who may have been intimidated on 9-11.

Airline employees at the check-in desks and gates, who would have been more familiar with this lawsuit, are the ones I have in mind.

Every chance I get to see a documentary or news program on 9-11, I tune in, as I learn some new tidbit of information.

Recently I saw a program which included comments by the American Airlines counter clerk in Portland, Maine.

He stated that when he saw Mohammed Atta and his demeanor, his radar went off. He said he had never seen such cold eyes, such hate.

He thought at the time that he was a terrorist.

[happygrl]

Aren’t there “wayback” websites that might have this information ?

[happygrl]

Never Forget.

Thank you again Dio.